retroterra
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom retro- + terra (“ground”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editretroterra m (invariable)
- (geography) hinterland
- background (social or historical context)
- Synonyms: background, formazione
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- «Non si fanno progressi sulla via della pace», mi aveva avvertito Rahm nel 2009, «se il presidente americano e il primo ministro israeliano hanno retroterra politici diversi.»
- "You don't get progress on peace," Rahm had warned me in 2009, "when the American president and the Israeli prime minister come from different political backgrounds."
- (literally, “"You cannot make progress on the way to peace," Rahm had warned me in 2009, "if the American president and the Israeli prime minister have different political backgrounds.”)
References
edit- ^ retroterra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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